A quotation from Democritus
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By convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality, atoms and void.
Democritus
Atoms and void. The universe is particles in motion, and cheerfulness is the goal.
Democritus imagined the world as atoms: indivisible particles moving through empty space, combining and separating to form everything we see. No gods required. He traveled widely, wrote on everything from ethics to embryology, and was said to laugh at human folly. His cheerful materialism anticipated modern science by two thousand years, though most of his writings are lost.
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Atoms and void. The universe is particles in motion, and cheerfulness is the goal. Democritus imagined the world as atoms: indivisible particles moving through empty space, combining and separating to form everything we see. No gods required. He traveled widely, wrote on everything from ethics to embry…